Now some might think that it's a giant ripoff that the metros would be built to the east while nothing ever gets extended to the west.
But I've been hearing about this great need for about 20 years. Apparently the numbers justify it.
And if it gets built, then the metros to the west might eventually follow.
The thing is.. the blue line is a bit of a nothing line.
It doesn't bring you downtown, which is where you probably want to go.
It can bring you to the orange line and you can transfer down but I always hated transferring.
Now if you lived near that line you'd have to ask: isn't it just faster to hop a bus down Pie IX or one of those north south streets and then hop onto the green line?
That would certainly be how I'd go if I lived anywhere to the south of this proposed line and maybe even to the north.
Perhaps the line could eventually loop around to meet the green line, which would be pretty cooltastic.
As for the money, from what I can recall the province has a budget of about $30 billion and about half of that goes to health care. I don't know where the famous $7 billion from Alberta comes in, but according to my understanding any given year the province of the Kweebecks has $15 billion to pay for absolutely everything outside of the realm of health. That could make this project a little hard to finance.
I'm no transit geek (which is why I still have a healthy social life) but perhaps someone out there with a deeper perspective could weigh in on the comments section below.